Rhys Pender MW is a decide on the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).
Rhys Pender MW
An educator, wine lover, decide, author, and grape grower/farmer, Rhys Pender MW has labored within the wine trade since he was a young person. Pender has pursued his ardour for meals and wine by finishing an expert culinary diploma and all ranges of the WSET, and in in 2010 he turned Canada’s youngest Grasp of Wine.
He runs a WSET wine college and consultancy via his enterprise Wine Plus+, and when he’s not travelling world wide he will be discovered together with his boots within the grime at his small 4 acre winery and vineyard within the Similkameen Valley – Little Farm Vineyard. He’s a daily contributor to publications equivalent to WineAlign.com, Macleans, Montecristo, SIP and Style.
Pender judges wine competitions internationally such because the Decanter World Wine Awards and TexSom Worldwide Wine Awards, in addition to for WineAlign and the British Columbia Wine Awards in Canada.
Rhys Pender MW was first a DWWA decide in 2011.
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